DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (MS)
Prerequisites: Successful completion of Turkish 3 or IGCSE Turkish exam
Course Description: This course is about using a range of materials, skills and knowledge to design and make products. It is an exciting and interesting subject that requires students to develop the ability to solve problems and make quality products. Students will learn to work with different tools and materials, and how everyday things work.
Texts and Resources: Design and Technology - James Garratt (Cambridge)
DESKTOP PUBLISHING—“Yearbook” (HS)
Credit: ¼ credit
Prerequisite: Intro to Computers or working knowledge of electronic graphic design
Description: In this class students produce the school yearbook. This class requires prior experience working with digital cameras and Microsoft Publisher. Students can expect to spend a lot of time capturing the year on “film,” (digitally speaking, of course). There is not a textbook to follow, so students will learn through lecture and by hands on experience. As a class it will be essential for students to work as a team to develop a theme and to incorporate that theme into all segments of the yearbook, from Kindergarten to 12th grade. Students who are very organized and detail-oriented would be excellent additions to this class!
Texts and Resources: Previous Yearbooks; Yearbook Binder with notes from previous teachers.
LIFE SKILLS (Grade 8)
Credit: Required; meets two periods per week for one quarter.
Description: he purpose of this class is to prepare students for life. There are many practical things they can learn and need to know before leaving home or going off to college. In this class, students are introduced to basic car maintenance (plus tire changing, washing and waxing a car), house repairs, laundry and ironing, sewing and mending, child care, first aid and health, shopping and cooking, budgeting, organic foods and gardening, first aid, CPR, and sex education.
Texts and Resources: Handouts from various speakers
SUCCESS (Grade 6)
Credit: Required; meets 1 class period per week
Description: This study skills course is required for all 6th graders. Students will learn practical organizational skills to be implemented in all subject areas, as well as note-taking, test-taking and other study skills. Topics include how to study, write (reports and penmanship), learn, research and memorize.
Texts and Resources: The Sytemizer by Gerie Max (1988; 2007)
THINKING SKILLS (Grade 7)
Credit: Required; meets 2 days per week for one quarter.
Description: The course encourages students to reflect on the process of thinking, as well as to practice thinking and problem solving. Students will learn a set of intellectual skills independent of subject content. They will analyze and evaluate arguments, analyze numerical and graphical information and develop a range of skills including data handling, logic and reasoning.
Texts and Resources: Thinking Skills by Butterworth and Thwaites - Cambridge (teachers resource).